Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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1 | This was not designer stubble , this was getting up in the morning and not being bothered . |
2 | Shortly afterwards came the Chronica Gentis Scottorum of John of Fordun , again stressing the achievements of the Scots , and the villainy of Edward I. This was followed up in the early fifteenth century by the verse chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun , prior of Lochleven . |
3 | The basic philosophy is the same , however , in that both views illustrate the fact that there is in intonation some organisation at a level higher than the isolated tone-unit ; this was pointed out in the discussion of Trim ( 1959 ) ( notes on Chapter 16 above ) ; see also Fox ( 1973 ) . |
4 | This was brought out in an incisive account of the impact of the Bauhaus on modern society by Baudrillard ( 1981 : 185–203 ) , in whose view this principle of creating order through style has become dominant over social interest , as a kind of structuralism imposed on everyday life . |
5 | This was brought about in no small degree by the invention in the 1890s of the safety bicycle which gave a wide cross-section of the population real mobility for the first time . |
6 | Well I did hear that point , it 's , it 's interesting because in fact Lithuania er President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement in July , er which effectively Russia recognise Lithuania as an independent state , it was the second country in the world to do that , er all of this was sorted out in a very er , good , er peaceful , sensible way , there , obviously Russia has concerns in Lithuania er not least the district . |
7 | This was carried out in the form of a maze of plants surrounding Her Majesty 's Coat of Arms . |
8 | This was set out in a section headed ‘ Dress and Deportment ’ , and illustrates Foucault 's point ( ibid. ) that in such situations the body is ‘ docile ’ to authoritative orders from above . |
9 | Six was brought up in the family business but declining trade prompted him to retire early and devote himself to the wide range of interests typical of an eighteenth-century intellectual , although there is no evidence that he ever received any formal training . |
10 | The latter was set up in a tent and foregrounded five white bigots beating a black man in the glare of automobile headlights . |
11 | The background to the above was set out in a letter from the Operations branch at MEHQ dated 22 February , in which they proposed the use of L Detachment as parachutists in a tactical role , for seizing and holding ground in co-operation with other forces landing by sea or advancing across the desert . |
12 | Tartan carpet using the Cumbernauld Tartan was laid out in the Country Club and its connecting passages . |
13 | ‘ The worst that was brought out in the dispute was brought out in our own — some of our departed brethren ’ . |
14 | The task of the Prime Minister was unremitting , for he was on duty every minute of the day and night and must know all that was going on in the Government . |
15 | And when it is burnt in large amounts , then the CO 2 that was taken up in the ancient world over a period of , say , a million years , may be released into the modern world in just a few years . |
16 | The Romanesque was taken over in the last two decades of the nineteenth century , when American railway-station building reached its apogee in masterpieces of creative eclecticism . |
17 | The last was set up in the seventies when apparently some defector had cast some doubt on Mills . |